[HN Gopher] Torching for Newts
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       Torching for Newts
        
       Author : meanie
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-02-12 20:33 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | KaiserPro wrote:
       | Two years ago I built a pond, because I have a garden and I had a
       | pond as a kid.
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       | Within 3 months we had newts! then came the dragonflies. I also
       | had a whole host of frogs and other invertebrates.
        
       | quercusa wrote:
       | Gussie Fink-Nottle smiles.
        
       | jamesharding wrote:
       | What an enjoyable read. I am just going through the process of a
       | house purchase in the UK now (in rural Berkshire), and the
       | presence of "Newt Control Officers" in any council planning
       | permission documents did make me laugh, so this article was well
       | timed :)
        
       | pvaldes wrote:
       | And then a neighbor call the police after seeing a shadow doing
       | something highly suspicious activity that probably involve a
       | corpse in the lakeside at night. So torching newts turns into
       | being torched by two policemen. True history.
        
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